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Finding Quality Apps in The App Store Still Sucks

This is another piece on a continuing thought about app discovery: Lately I've been perusing the App Store spending on average 30 minutes in search of interesting, creative, beautiful, and well designed apps. Yes, all those things are requirements that I consider in order for something to be

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OSX 10.7 Lion And Beyond: How We Should Have Sandboxed Applications Like iOS

Lately I’ve been thinking about how Apple has a real opportunity to bring additional benefits of iOS to OS X as far as app management is concerned. We now have a pretty clear picture on the benefits the Mac App store will bring in 10.7 as far as

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Goodbye to Optical Drives in Future MacBooks And MacBook Pros

With the release of the new MacBook Air, Apple is not only continuing it’s tradition of not including an optical drive but they have taken steps and given us hints that future Macbooks may not contain optical drives. This time around instead of shipping physical media so that you

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OSX 10.7 Should Be Something More Ambitious

So apparently Apple is hosting an event on Oct 20th called "Back to the Mac," which is interesting and seems a bit out of left field right now. Back in July I wrote about the next logical step for OSX and what we can expect over the next

Blockbuster files for chapter 11 bankruptcy

Although it may not come as a shock to anyone, [Blockbuster has finally packed it][Blockbuster[ in and filed for bankruptcy. Blockbuster, which employs about 25,000 people, has been closing stores as it grapples with competition from Netflix, Coinstar unit Redbox and others that deliver movie rentals digitally. It&

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iTunes 10 Moving Slowly to A Cocoa App?

Yesterday I posted a Tweet asking if anyone knew if iTunes 10 was re-written as a 100% Cocoa app. Although I didn't receive any responses, apparently Jasper over at Waffle says that there are portions of iTunes 10 written in Cocoa, but is still a lot of legacy

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Give me iTunes X and wireless syncing

In the midst of some major new announcements from this mornings Apple keynote, there has been pretty strong evidence that a new Apple TV will be release in addition to a refreshed iPod lineup. While people speculate about whether or not there will be an iTunes “cloud” service, all I’

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Apple's MacBook Line-Up And Where We Go from Here

Over the last two years, we have seen some great updates to the venerable MacBook Pro line-up. Notably with the introduction of a all-glass trackpad in the 2008 redesign. Since then, we have seen 4 finger swipe gestures added and now "inertial scrolling" in the latest 2010 models.

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Thoughts on Staying Motivated And Passionate about Writing

Being a good writer is hard. Finding the inspiration and patience to keep writing on a regular basis is also a constant battle. For the longest time I found that starting a blog was difficult. The first question I asked myself was “who the hell wants to read what I

Amazon Needs To do Better than $379 for The Kindle DX

So Amazon has started taking pre-orders for the new Kindle DX. If Amazon wants to compete with Apple, the Kindle DX needs to be dramatically cheaper than an iPad. Cheaper to the point where you won't think twice about spending just a bit more. At $379 USD for

Adobe's Flash Platform Will Live on, But Not on The Web

Okay, I’m going to make this short and sweet. The general consensus and buzz going on about Apple putting the kibosh on Adobe is warranted. I think Flash usage/adoption will drastically decline over the next 12 months. In fact, I’d go as far to say that no